Ultra wideband bow-tie printed antenna

• US 7,123,207 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2004
• Issued: 10/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Original Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Inventors: Kohno, Ryuji, Yazdandoost, Kamya Yekeh
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, HOANGANH T
• Application Number:
  US10/925,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20050146480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/795, 343/797, 343/850, 343/853, 343/820, 343/821, 343/822, 343/793, 343/860
• US Class Current: 343/795
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/285 Planar dipole H01Q9/065 takes precedence; patch antenna H01Q9/0407

Abstract

A printed antenna includes a dielectric substrate having a pair of printed antenna elements to form a dipole antenna. On an antenna plane, an xy axis system is defined so that an origin is defined at a center of location of the antenna elements, and an x axis is set in a direction that the antenna elements are arranged, a y axis is set in the direction perpendicular to the x axis, and a size of the antenna elements in the direction of the y axis become gradually larger according to the x axis changing in an outer direction. Each of the antenna elements has an impedance matching part at a feeding side of the antenna elements. The printed antenna can be used in an ultra wide-band frequency, and is small profile, is light weight and low in cost.

Claims

1. A printed antenna having a dielectric substrate and a pair of printed antenna elements on the substrate comprising:

antenna elements being set separately and adjacently each other on a substrate;

an xy axis system being defined on an antenna plane so that the origin is defined at a center of location of the antenna elements, an x axis is set in a direction that the antenna elements are arranged, and a y axis is set in a direction perpendicular to the x axis;

a size of the antenna elements in the direction of the y axis becoming gradually larger according to the x axis changing in an outer direction; and

each of the antenna elements comprising an impedance matching part at a feeding side of the antenna elements which is narrowed step by step from the antenna element side to the feeding side of the printed antenna,

wherein the Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) characteristic of the antenna is less than 3 in a frequency range of between 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz.

2. A printed antenna of claim 1, wherein the pair of antenna elements have a bow-tie type figure.

3. A printed antenna of claim 1, wherein each part of the ends of the antenna element of the most outside on the x axis is cut and parallel to the x axis.

4. A printed antenna of claim 1, wherein outer sides of the antenna elements perpendicular to the x axis are parallel to each other, and inner sides of the antenna elements perpendicular to the x axis are parallel to each other.

5. A printed antenna of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises an insulating material and the printed pattern comprises a conducting material.

6. A printed antenna of claim 5, wherein the substrate comprises FR4.

7. A printed antenna of claim 5, wherein the printed pattern comprises Cu.

8. A component of a bow-tie shaped antenna, comprising:

a connection to an antenna element;

a connection to a feeding element;

a side, facing a gap in the antenna, having a continuously strait shape from the antenna element to the feeding element; and

a side, facing away from the gap, having a plurality of steps causing the distance between the sides to decrease from the antenna element to the feeding element,

wherein the Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) characteristic of the antenna is less than 3 in a frequency range of between 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz.

9. An antenna comprising:

a substrate;

first and second antenna elements formed on the substrate to form a bow-tie shape;

a gap separating the first and second elements; and

a section, electrically connecting the first element to a conductor, with a strait side facing the gap and with a stepped side facing away from the gap that tapers the section from the first element to a feeding sides,

wherein the Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) characteristic of the antenna is less than 3 in a frequency range of between 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz.

10. An antenna element comprising:

a first section forming part of a bow-tie type figure; and

a second section which includes a side joining the first section, a continuously strait side, and a stepped side opposite the continuously strait side that narrows the second section from the first section to a feeding side,

wherein the Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) characteristic of the antenna element is less than 3 in a frequency range of between 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz.